Motivational Quotes

Change

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

- Astor, Lady Nancy

Best Quotes about Change

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin